Prime PSD Springfield MO 02/20/17

02/24/17 Well today was pretty crappy overall i guess. Still no word on the drug test no idea why its taking so long I believe one other girl is waiting on hers too. Doubt they run any tests on the weekend which means just sitting and waiting all weekend. Recruiter called and said if there is any chance it could be positive let her know now and she will just send me home but if its positive on monday I will be SOL and I gotta get my own way home, not a big deal since I dont do drugs just a lil disheartening having that convo. Spent my day doing pre trip and did some SIM stuff to kill time, went to steak n shake for the first time it was pretty good. Also tried HuHot which is a mongolian grill buffet, pretty good as well. No idea what I will be doing this weekend except pretrip sooo ya...not much I can give updates on pretty bummed out right now been working so hard I am usually the only one from my entire class out doing pretrip and stuff and now this is holding up my progress. A couple of the guys i met hanging out seem to be leaving tomorrow or sunday so looks like alot of hurry up and wait. Sorry its not a very exciting update or anything.

Don't let it get you down bud. You aren't the first to be held up in such a way. Any chance you forgot to mention any over the counter drugs such as ibuprofen or Prilosec for example? That could hold you up too. Either way I wouldn't worry too much about it. You should be fine.

I'm due in sometime Sunday morning. I'll look you up sometime during the day. Maybe we can grab a bite to eat.

Oh geeze that's rough. Have you talke to the girl that is waiting for hers as well? At least this will make it that much sweeter to get into a truck. It does such that it's taking so long. Hopefully we hear from you on Monday with good news!

She got her clear late yesterday so now its just me waiting. And since everyone is closed on weekends i will be waiting for sure till monday. Gonna make sure they know i will go reefer to flatbed with a preferance of flatbed i think. Dont want to get stuck with a lightweight truck haha!

Yeah I'd rather have a full size too. Hopefully I get lucky lol

Yeah I'd rather have a full size too. Hopefully I get lucky lol

I was told by the instructors that s reefer 99% chance a new person will get lightwieght.

You can totally get a full size truck if you want, but you may have to wait a couple days until one becomes available. Also, they won't pay for the addl days of hotel room while you're waiting. I've heard it usually isn't much of a wait anyway.

In the reefer division, you'll get paid 5cpm less if you want a full size. The flatbed division doesn't run lightweights, only fullsize trucks and a few midroofs.

Lastly, when you switch division there will be additional training required for that division. I'm not sure exactly how much training though. I think I heard 10k miles, but don't quote me on that.

Good to know! Thank you turtle!

You can totally get a full size truck if you want, but you may have to wait a couple days until one becomes available. Also, they won't pay for the addl days of hotel room while you're waiting. I've heard it usually isn't much of a wait anyway.

In the reefer division, you'll get paid 5cpm less if you want a full size. The flatbed division doesn't run lightweights, only fullsize trucks and a few midroofs.

Lastly, when you switch division there will be additional training required for that division. I'm not sure exactly how much training though. I think I heard 10k miles, but don't quote me on that.

Ya thats what i heard. I got some guy up here saw he pretripping tryin to get me assigned to his truck i hope he is good lol. I told them i wanted to switch my preffered to flatbed so i can just jump into it. People were sayin flatbed getting a lil slow but as a company driver they will prob always have loads for me since im cheap labor

02/26/17-02/27/17 On the 26th i met up with my trainer and we went out got some pad time appearntly I did very well he said i was a natrual born trucker only got one little thing to work on. Later that night my buddy Turtle decided to roll in for his upgrade shoutout to him!! Congrats my dude! Thats about all that happened yesterday except food. This morning Me and my trainer were both getting pretty antsy about my drug test not comming back yet so we took a lil ride to driver personel and talked with them turns out it did come back really late friday or earlier this morning so I GOT CLEARED!!! I am all badged up now waiting on a load we are taking care of a little laundry and headed out soon hopefully!